TY - JOUR
T1 - Differences in counseling men and women
T2 - Family planning in Kenya
AU - Kim, Young Mi
AU - Kols, Adrienne
AU - Mwarogo, Peter
AU - Awasum, David
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was made possible by financial support from USAID under Cooperative Agreement DPE-3052-A-00-0014-00 and IPPF/Vision 2000. The data was collected by the Family Planning Association of Kenya as part of the Kenya Client-Provider IEC Project and Male Involvement Project. We thank Milka Juma, Isabel Chege, Margaret Thuo, Stephen Mucheke, Dan Odallo, and Shanyisa Khasiani for helping collect the data; Katherine Holmsen and Bruce Morén for coding the transcripts; and Gary Lewis, Phyllis Tilson Piotrow and Ward Rinehart for reviewing this paper.
Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2000/1
Y1 - 2000/1
N2 - A comparison of family planning sessions with male and female clients in Kenya found distinct gender differences. Most men came for information, while women wanted to adopt, continue, or change contraceptive methods. Consultations with men and couples were more than twice as long as consultations with women. Men communicated actively (for example, by volunteering extra information, asking questions, and expressing worries) during 66% of their turns to speak, compared with 27% for women. Providers offered men more detailed information than women, asked them fewer questions, issued fewer instructions, and responded more supportively. These communication patterns may be seen as a reflection of Kenyan gender roles and men's and women's different reasons for seeking family planning services. Kenyan providers need to improve the quality of their interactions with women. They also need to anticipate men's outspokenness and understand the male agenda if they are to counsel men effectively. Copyright (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
AB - A comparison of family planning sessions with male and female clients in Kenya found distinct gender differences. Most men came for information, while women wanted to adopt, continue, or change contraceptive methods. Consultations with men and couples were more than twice as long as consultations with women. Men communicated actively (for example, by volunteering extra information, asking questions, and expressing worries) during 66% of their turns to speak, compared with 27% for women. Providers offered men more detailed information than women, asked them fewer questions, issued fewer instructions, and responded more supportively. These communication patterns may be seen as a reflection of Kenyan gender roles and men's and women's different reasons for seeking family planning services. Kenyan providers need to improve the quality of their interactions with women. They also need to anticipate men's outspokenness and understand the male agenda if they are to counsel men effectively. Copyright (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
KW - Communication
KW - Family planning
KW - Gender
KW - Physician-patient relations
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U2 - 10.1016/S0738-3991(99)00089-0
DO - 10.1016/S0738-3991(99)00089-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 11013546
AN - SCOPUS:0033991769
SN - 0738-3991
VL - 39
SP - 37
EP - 47
JO - Patient Education and Counseling
JF - Patient Education and Counseling
IS - 1
ER -